Yesterday we posted a transcript of a portion of Senior Community Coordinator David Bass’ interview on the Mos Eisley Radio podcast. This generated a good conversation in the Comments section which prompted David Bass himself to respond with the acknowledgement that it can be difficult for new fansites to find their way. He also talked about a virtual meeting with more fansites. When one commenter asked how BioWare supports the fansite community, David wrote:

There has been some discussion about what Senior Community Coordinator David Bass said on a recent Mos Eisley Radio podcast with regards to their plans to host a second Fan Site Summit next week. Some sites have claimed that David Bass dissed all the uninvited fansites by saying that they would die off after SWTOR launches. We thought it would be useful to post a transcript of the section under contention. The following section begins at 26:22 of the podcast.

David: This is actually more of a fansite meeting, I want to say, between us and the sites we’re bringing out because we want to kind of take a look at the post-launch landscape for fansites. One of the problems that a lot of communities have, a lot of MMO communities have, is that before launch there’s this huge excitement – I call it the honeymoon phase – it’s like when everyone’s really excited about the game and the game can do no wrong.

As we get adjusted, here in the Northern Hemisphere, for colder temperatures, things in SWTOR have been heating up. New York Comic-Con produced several interesting bits of information, for a show that would not revealing really anything. We now have a Global release date, for all those in areas scheduled to get the game on this first part of launch, December 20th, 2011. We also found out that there will be 15 Flashpoints and not one, but two Operations in the game at launch! Today is also a big day, as the press embargo is being lifted, so media sources should be giving us many, many more articles about Star Wars: The Old Republic. Oh yeah, since today is the 20th of October…We only have two months till official launch! Get your /dance emote on and head to a cantina! Now, let’s get into this week’s links 🙂

More Fun & Information from SWTOR in this week’s HoloNet Links after the Jump…

Roxanne and Kathy were invited to share their New York Comic Con impressions with those affable gentlemen of Mos Eisley Radio. We cover some of the new mini-reveals, find out that Nice Guy Zach sometimes turns into Game Rage Zach, that Kathy doesn’t believe in traffic signals, and more! Check out MER’s latest podcast here.